AMD recognizes that the growth in the frequency potential of processors has slowed down

POSTER:computer news || AMD RECOGNIZES THAT THE GROWTH IN THE FREQUENCY POTENTIAL OF PROCESSORS HAS SLOWED DOWN

DATE:2017-05-18

AMD technical director Mark Papermaster at the last event tried to explain how the company is going to live in conditions of modification of the so-called "Moore's law". According to this empirical rule, formulated by one of the founders of Intel more than forty years ago, the semiconductor industry developed until recently, but now there was a need not so much to revise the formulation as to seek new ways of developing microprocessor technology.

Each new generation of processors, produced by more "thin" lithographic standards, does not give the previous increase in frequency. This fact is recognized in AMD openly, because this is not an Intel company, for which keeping the "Moore's Law" is a matter of honor.

How to improve the speed of computing in the new environment, AMD explains on the second slide. New interfaces, layout solutions, the use of automation in the design of microchips - that's what can be done on the part of "hardware". In addition, you can apply new types of memory and accelerators of computing based on graphics processors. Need to optimize and software.

"Transistor budget" AMD spends 10% more efficient than its main competitor, if we compare the latest 14-nm processors with four cores.

When AMD CEO Lisa Su began to talk about the company's achievements from a historical perspective, success in uncovering the frequency potential of the central and graphics processors got into an improvised "glory gallery." So, the head of AMD reminded that it was this company that first released the central processor with a frequency of 1 GHz, and later offered a graphics processor with the same frequency. To other achievements, AMD includes the world's first 64-bit x86-compatible processor,
the world's first hybrid processor with integrated graphics, and the conquest of the turnaround in one teraflops.